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Proposals tabled for schools in Scotland to move to four-day teaching weeks
Proposals aim to reduce teacher workload with a flexible four-day week and 90-minute weekly class time cut, forming part of a new National Deal including pay improvements.
- On Thursday, Jenny Gilruth will set out proposals at the Scottish Headteachers conference for a four-day teaching week with reduced classroom contact and a fifth day for professional learning.
- A June EIS survey found teachers rarely finished preparation and correcting within their working week, prompting teaching unions to urge reduced class contact time to ease unsustainable workloads.
- The EIS, representing more than 80% of Scotland's teaching professionals, criticised ministers for media announcements and opened a ballot on industrial action, while Andrea Bradley called the 90-minute contact time reduction a red line.
- Negotiations with unions and local councils would follow, with strike ballots ongoing; ministers cite pilot programmes in other public sectors that cut absence and boosted productivity, while the NASUWT union seeks control over time use.
- The Scottish Government argued the measures, alongside a pay deal agreed earlier in November, would form a new 'National Deal' but face practical issues in primary schools and revisit the SNP manifesto promise of 21 hours.
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NEWS: Scotland Unveils plan for ‘Flexible’ Four-Day Teaching Week
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